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• Florida airport shooting suspect appears in new video

  08-01-2017 22:56
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A day before the suspect in the Fort Lauderdale airport rampage was to appear in court, a website released footage that appears to show him calmly drawing a pistol and opening fire in the baggage claim area.CNN and AP report the the video recording posted on TMZ'a website appears to show Estaban Santiago walking through baggage claim of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, pulling a handgun from his waistband and then firing several times b
  
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• Mom, boyfriend charged in teen girl dismemberment death

  08-01-2017 21:21
  
  NEWTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A woman whose 14-year-old daughter's dismembered remains were found in the woods last fall has been charged along with her boyfriend with killing the girl in a "rape-murder fantasy" the couple shared, a prosecutor said Sunday."The hours and the days leading up to her murder were probably the most horrible and traumatic that any person should ever have had to experience," Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said.Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan face charges includi
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Warming trend is on the way

  08-01-2017 21:12
  This Evening: Increasing clouds and cold. W wind 0-10 mph.Tonight: Frigid and mostly cloudy. Low around 12. S wind 0-10 mph.Monday: Partly sunny and more average. High 32. SW wind 10-15 mph. A chance for flurries overnight into Tuesday morning.Tuesday: A wintry mix or freezing rain early then rain by late morning and afternoon. Much milder, but breezy. High 46. S wind 15-20 mph.
  Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Closings, DelaysSpecial Information: Tonight should be the l
  
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• Senators seeking review on train conductor sleep apnea tests

  08-01-2017 20:54
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Five U.S. senators have called on the National Transportation Safety Board to conduct a comprehensive review of all passenger railroads' implementation of sleep apnea testing for engineers and inward-facing cameras on trains.A letter, sent Sunday to NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart, was signed Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, of New Jersey, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, and Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut.The five Democrats noted that
  
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• Annual No Pants Subway Ride hits cities around the world

  08-01-2017 20:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) - Subway riders in New York City and other places around the world should be ready for an eyeful when their fellow transit users strip down to their underwear.The annual No Pants Subway Ride is taking place Sunday.The event is organized by the Improv Everywhere comedy collective. It started in 2002 in New York with seven participants.Organizers say pants-less subway rides are scheduled to take place this year in dozens of cities around the world. Philadelphia's version is sponsored
  
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• Ohio Supreme Court again considers traffic cameras

  08-01-2017 20:42
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) - For the third time in less than a decade, the use of traffic cameras by Ohio cities is before the state Supreme Court.Attorneys for Dayton will Tuesday urge the justices to reject a law passed by the Legislature requiring that a police officer be present when cameras are being used to generate red-light or speeding citations.Dayton, backed by other Ohio cities, says that requirement is meant only to make it cost-prohibitive to use cameras, which they say increase safety.Ohio le
  
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• Ohio couple with small children charged after overdosing at White Castle

  08-01-2017 20:37
  
  SHARONVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Police say a married couple has been charged with child endangering after overdosing in front of their two small children at a White Castle restaurant in Southwest Ohio.The Cincinnati Enquirer reports police say 37-year-old Marc Williams and 28-year-old Jessica Williams, of Lebanon, had to be revived after overdosing on heroin Friday at a White Castle in Sharonville with a 3-year-old and 9-month-old at their table.Police were called to the restaurant after Marc Williams
  
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• 3 Texas men who went missing on hunting trip found dead, Coast Guard says

  08-01-2017 20:26
  
  CALHOUN COUNTY, Texas -- Three men who went missing during a hunting trip were found dead Saturday afternoon, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, CBS affiliate KHOU reports. The three men went duck hunting near Carancahua Bay between Port Lavaca and Palacios Friday morning.According to the Coast Guard, the men are Spencer Hall, 19, from Mont Belvieu, Starett Burk, 25, from Wallisville, and Christian Ruckman, 18, from Dayton.The men launched their 17-foot green, flat-bottom boat around 4 a.m. off
  
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• 25,000 items need claiming after Fort Lauderdale airport shooting

  08-01-2017 20:21
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Dan and Janice Kovacs and their two children were passing through airport security when the gunfire erupted. They were shoeless - with wallets, passports and carry-on items chugging along a conveyer belt - when they sprang into the mass of people running to safety.Now they’re among stranded travelers at Fort Lauderdale trying to recover what the airport director says are 25,000 pieces of luggage, cellphones and other belongings separated from their owners during Fri
  
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• Man found shot to death near Southeast Side businesses

  08-01-2017 20:15
  
  A 33-year-old man was found shot to death this morning in front of several businesses on the Southeast Side. Savaughn L. Conner was found lying on the ground in the 2100 block of S. James Road just after 9:30 a.m., Columbus police said.
  
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• Dog recovering after being found tied up outside Scioto County home

  08-01-2017 19:53
  SCIOTO COUNTY, Ohio -- A concerned visitor at a Scioto County residence gasped when looking at a dog that has now taken on the name of Ruby.“That person could not believe what they were seeing,” said Ohio SPCA executive director Teresa Landon. “I was on the phone with them and told them to take the dog into safety right away.”Veterinarians said that move may have come just in the nick of time for Ruby, as they say the emaciated dog had no way of keeping warm outside. Acco
  
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• Letter: Destroy charm, ruin the attraction

  08-01-2017 17:38
  
  The Dispatch welcomes letters to the editor from readers. Typed letters of 200 words or fewer are preferred; all might be edited.
  
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• Miami University offers $350,000 to help build Amtrak train stop

  08-01-2017 17:07
  
  OXFORD — Miami University has pledged $350,000 for an Amtrak train stop to give students, parents and alumni another transportation option.
  
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• Navy, Trump planning biggest fleet expansion since Cold War

  08-01-2017 14:07
  
  With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China.The Navy's 355-ship proposal released last month is even larger than what the Republican Trump had promoted on the campaign trail, providing a potential boost to shipyards that have struggled because budget caps that have limited money funding for ships.At Maine's Bath Iron Works, workers worried
  
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• 18 Places to Find Cold-Pressed Juice in Columbus

  08-01-2017 14:00
  
  Looking for cold-pressed juice in Columbus? A plethora of new juice bars and juice shops have opened around town over the past several years, and each of them offer their own varieties of raw, organic juice blends and other related products. The trend only looks like it will continue to grow in 2017, with more […]
  
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• John Switzer | From the Stump: Birds show us how to survive cold winter nights

  08-01-2017 13:56
  
  When it gets really cold in the winter and my wife turns down the heat at night to save money on the gas bill, I sometimes worry that I will wake up in a block of ice. She claims it is healthier to sleep in a cold bedroom, but I know better. She is a frugal women.
  
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• Ohioans would be affected in many ways by state budget belt-tightening

  08-01-2017 13:53
  
  After several years of budget stability, Ohio’s finances are expected to be strained this year amid predictions of recession economics and tight spending. That means Ohioans could face fewer services or paying more for what they already have.
  
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• Israeli police: Truck ramming kills 4 in Jerusalem

  08-01-2017 13:35
  
  A truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus in Jerusalem Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said.Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the truck veered off course and rammed into the group. She said the attacker was shot dead.The attack comes amid a more than yearlong wave of Palestinian shooting, stabbing and vehicular attacks against Israelis that has slowed of late. Sunday's incident marks the first Israeli
  
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• Trump defends Russia outreach amid U.S. intelligence criticism

  08-01-2017 13:23
  
  U.S. intelligence officials are convinced that Russia meddled in the presidential race. But that hasn't changed President-elect Donald Trump's call for warmer relations with Moscow.Trump declared in a series of tweets on Saturday that "only 'stupid' people or fools" would come to a different conclusion."Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing," he stated from Trump Tower, adding: "We have enough problems without yet another one."American intelligence officials on
  
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• U.S. officials say 300 marines will deploy in Afghanistan

  08-01-2017 13:16
  
  Approximately 300 United States Marines will be deployed to train, advise and assist Afghan security forces in the southern province of Helmand.A Resolute Support Mission spokesman, U.S. Navy Capt. Bill Salvin in Afghanistan, said Sunday that the deployment will take place in the spring.Salvin said in a statement that the marines are scheduled to deploy for approximately nine months and will be working with the Afghan National Army's 215th Corps and the 505th Zone National Police.Taliban spokesm
  
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• Outdoors | Winter months packed with indoor shows on outdoor activities

  08-01-2017 13:06
  
  January, like the two-faced Roman god Janus from whom its name is derived, connects to beginnings and endings. Among the beginnings are the marketing and educational events that draw paying crowds. These often begin in January and taper off as the weather warms.
  
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• For Your Mental Health, Consider Giving Facebook the Boot This Year

  08-01-2017 13:00
  
  At 6:30 a.m. on December 31, 2016 I deactivated Facebook. The election posts really put me over the top. There was so much hatred, lack of respect and unhealthy debating that I found myself getting anxious just scrolling through friends’ posts. I decided I needed to change, but I didn’t know then that I would […]
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: The Next Warm-Up is in Sight

  08-01-2017 12:39
  Today: FRIGID again with wind chills in the single digits much of the afternoon.High 18.West winds 5-10 mph.
  Tonight: Increasing clouds.Still frigid.Low 12.South winds 4-8 mph.
  Monday: Mix of sun & clouds through the day, warmer.High 31.SW winds 8-13 mph.
  Tuesday: Chance for a rain/snow mix early then a brief period of freezing rain before turning to all rain in the late morning, mild.High 48.South winds 10-20 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Closings, DelaysSpec
  
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• Ex-Pike County deputy set for murder trial

  08-01-2017 12:33
  
  An auxiliary deputy sheriff in Pike County clocked the speed of Robert C. Rooker’s pickup truck at 52 mph in a 45-mph zone late one night in March 2015, setting off a chain of events that ended with the unarmed Rooker shot to death inside his vehicle and another deputy accused of murder.
  
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• Ohioans would be affected by state budget belt-tightening

  08-01-2017 12:22
  
  After several years of budget stability, Ohio’s finances are expected to be strained this year amid predictions of recession economics and tight spending. That means Ohioans could face fewer services or paying more for what they already have.
  
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• Theodore Decker: Reynoldsburg man’s case deserves new look after police corruption

  08-01-2017 12:16
  
  Corrupt cops are always branded “bad apples.” But a bad apple suggests a problem easily resolved. The stain left on the criminal justice system by cops-turned-criminals like former Reynoldsburg police detective Tye Downard and Lt. Shane Mauger is not so easily excised.
  
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• Central Ohio residents describe chaos at Fort Lauderdale airport

  08-01-2017 12:09
  
  Friday was her birthday, and all Nicole Phalen wanted was to get home to see her family. Hiding behind chairs at an airport gate, then running across a tarmac and ducking under airplanes to escape a gunman was not part of her plan. Neither was squeezing through a hole in a barbed-wire fence, sprinting along a railroad track in hopes of getting to a road or lying on her belly in a field filled with fire ants.
  
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• Ohio Military Reserve is looking for a few good volunteers

  08-01-2017 11:55
  
  After 9/11, Mark Williams decided to serve his country. “I wanted to do something — but I was too old,” said Williams, then 45 years old. Unable to enlist, he joined the Ohio Military Reserve, a volunteer, noncombat organization trained to support the National Guard and local authorities in case of emergency.
  
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• Post-holidays blood shortage spurs urgent Red Cross call for donors

  08-01-2017 11:53
  
  Because of a severe shortage caused by a slump in donations over the holidays, the American Red Cross has issued a nationwide emergency call for blood and platelet donors.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Matt Borges, having lost Ohio GOP post, still paying back taxes

  08-01-2017 11:50
  
  Although Matt Borges wound up with the title of Ohio Republican Party chairman emeritus after losing the chairmanship job, that role doesn’t offer a paycheck. He needs one — and not just to support his family. During the internal party warfare, Borges’ past problems with the IRS, exposed when he ran for and won the party-leadership post in 2013, were dredged up again.
  
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• Blood in the streets: Pedestrian deaths nearly double in Columbus

  08-01-2017 11:38
  
  Three children were struck and killed by vehicles during a gut-wrenching, two-week stretch in September. They were the only juvenile pedestrians killed last year in Columbus, but the overall number of people on foot killed by motorists significantly increased compared with past years.
  
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• More Americans care for elderly relatives, but who will care for the caregivers?

  08-01-2017 11:26
  
  The United States needs to do more to help the tens of millions of caregivers who sacrifice their finances, health and personal lives to look out for aging loved ones, a growing number of experts say. Nearly 18 million people care for a relative 65 or older who has health or functional impairments, according to a report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. This does not include people who assist family and friends in nursing homes.
  
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• Immigrant-founded Modlich Monument still family-owned 80 years later

  08-01-2017 11:01
  
  A German immigrant arrived in Columbus in the 1920s with little more than a knack for cutting stone. Linus Modlich went on to start a business making headstones. He taught the trade to his sons, who did the same for their sons, and Modlich Monument Co. has become a central Ohio leader in its field, operating from a main office on the West Side.
  
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• Deadly winter storm turns towards New England after raking the South

  08-01-2017 08:03
  
  DURHAM, N.C. (CBS/AP) -- A winter storm that left a glaze of ice and snow across portions of the South and is being blamed for at least three deaths has turned its attention to New England, where travel conditions have already become treacherous and a chain-reaction accident on a Connecticut road involved nearly two dozen cars.Before the storm churned north along the Atlantic coast, it left icy conditions in Alabama and Mississippi, where a former governor was hospitalized after he slipped and f
  
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• Mary Chalotte 'M.C.' Hesselbart

  08-01-2017 07:54
  
  Mary Charlotte "M.C." Hesselbart, who brought business acumen, an eye for fashion, and a fondness for antiques to the clothing store she and her late husband, Roger, operated in Genoa, died Thursday in the Curtice, Ohio, home of her daughter Julie Skilliter, where she lived the last seven years. She was 93. Mrs. Hesselbart and her husband owned the Yankee Pedlar on Main Street, which drew customers from beyond Ottawa County.
  
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• 2nd suspect charged in fire that killed Ohio firefighter

  08-01-2017 07:36
  
  HAMILTON — A southwestern Ohio prosecutor says a second man has been charged in the death of a firefighter killed inside a home in a blaze authorities say was intentionally set by the owner.
  
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• Ohio State wide receiver Noah Brown to enter NFL draft

  08-01-2017 04:54
  
  Another member of the Buckeyes will be leaving early for the NFL.Ohio State wide receiver Noah Brown announced his decision to forgo his final year with the team and enter the 2017 NFL draft.Cornerback Gareon Conley, safety Malik Hooker and linebacker Raekwon McMillan have also announced their decisions to declare for the draft.In a tweet sent Saturday, Brown thanked "everyone at the Ohio State University and Buckeye Nation for the best experience (he) could ever ask for." #Blessed pic.twitter.c
  
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• One person dead after a shooting in east Columbus

  08-01-2017 04:07
  
  COLUMBUS - Columbus Police are on the scene of a shooting that happened around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.The shooting happened on the 1200 block of Simpson Drive.Dispatchers told 10TV one person was pronounced dead.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates.
  
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• Ohio Military Reserve hopes to attract members, raise awareness with open-house events

  08-01-2017 04:07
  Curtis Fleshman pulls his boots on while undergoing a physical exam, required before he could enlist in the Ohio Military Reserve, during an open house for potential recruits at Haubrich Armory in Columbus. Fleshman said he thinks every able-bodied man should try to serve his country.
  
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• Ohio woman killed in Fort Lauderdale shooting

  08-01-2017 03:42
  
  An Ohio woman is one of the five victims of the Florida airport shooting and her husband was critically injured in the attack.
  
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• Firefighters battle warehouse fire in northeast Columbus

  08-01-2017 03:00
  
  COLUMBUS - An arson investigator was called to the scene of a fire in northeast Columbus on Saturday.It happened around 8:15 p.m. on the 5000 block of Westerville Road.Fire officials told 10TV the flames were controlled once the sprinklers were activated.No injuries were immediately reported.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates.
  
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• She 'truly sparkled': Family remembers Ohio woman killed in Ft. Lauderdale airport attack

  08-01-2017 02:39
  An Ohio woman is one of the five victims of the Florida airport shooting and her husband was critically injured in the attack.Steve Reineccius confirmed Saturday over Facebook that his grandmother Shirley Timmons was killed when a gunman opened fire in a baggage claim area at a Fort Lauderdale airport. Reineccius says his grandmother and grandfather Steve Timmons, who was wounded in the shooting, were both 70 years old.WILE-FM reports that the couple had flown to Fort Lauderdale on Friday to joi
  
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• Ohio woman one of five people killed in Ft. Lauderdale airport attack

  08-01-2017 02:39
  An Ohio woman is one of the five victims of the Florida airport shooting and her husband was critically injured in the attack.Steve Reineccius confirmed Saturday over Facebook that his grandmother Shirley Timmons was killed when a gunman opened fire in a baggage claim area at a Fort Lauderdale airport. Reineccius says his grandmother and grandfather Steve Timmons, who was wounded in the shooting, were both 70 years old.WILE-FM reports that the couple had flown to Fort Lauderdale on Friday to joi
  
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• AP: Ohio woman one of five people killed in Ft. Lauderdale airport attack

  08-01-2017 02:39
  
  An Ohio woman is one of the five victims of the Florida airport shooting and her husband was critically injured in the attack.Steve Reineccius confirmed Saturday over Facebook that his grandmother Shirley Timmons was killed when a gunman opened fire in a baggage claim area at a Fort Lauderdale airport. Reineccius says his grandmother and grandfather Steve Timmons, who was wounded in the shooting, were both 70 years old.WILE-FM reports that the couple had flown to Fort Lauderdale on Friday to joi
  
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• Intoxicated, off-duty officer arrested after dropping gun at Ohio theater

  08-01-2017 02:25
  
  MILFORD, Ohio (AP) - Authorities say an intoxicated off-duty Cincinnati police sergeant faces misdemeanor charges after prompting the evacuation of a southwest Ohio movie theater when she dropped a department-issued handgun in front of other patrons.Court records show 50-year-old Shauna Lambert has been charged with inducing panic and using weapons while intoxicated after the incident Friday night at a multiplex theater in Milford. She was arrested inside the theater and jailed overnight. Lamber
  
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• Four charged with sneaking drugs into prison -

  08-01-2017 00:17
  The former secretary of the mental health department at Madison Correctional Institution developed a relationship with an inmate and attempted to sneak Xanax into the facility for him, according to assistant county prosecutor Nick Adkins Katrina Barber, 27, of Columbus, is accused of hiding two nickel-sized balloons of heroin in her bra. She tried to get them into MaCI for her husband, an inmate at the prison, according to Adkins.
  
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